Micklegate bibliography

Our starting point was the York Historic Environment Record (HER), which includes a large amount of useful information and links to documentary sources. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 3, South west/pp68-96. has a lot of detail about the historic buildings.

The Council's Micklegate Characterisation Statement gives an overall historic perspective of the street, with interesting maps.

For information about occupants and traders, we used the collection of York trade directories in the Local Studies Library (where entries are listed under street) and the censuses. Directories are only available until 1975, but there are other sources, such as the classified Yellow Pages in the Local Studies Library, to try and bring the records up to date from the 1970s. These can also have occasional adverts, showing how traders presented themselves and what they were selling. 

Another source for recent trading history over the last thirty years was the online York Press, where businesses opening and closing often featured. 

We used social media nostalgia groups on Facebook, such as York Past and Present with 35,000 members, and York Born and Bred, to find old photos and memories. and to ask for new information.

As these are historic buildings the York Planning Portal provides documentation supporting building changes over the last twenty years or so.

The City Archives catalogue indicates any files of material about a building.

The British Newspaper Archive was searched for information about 19th century traders and occupants, for example details about public houses and obituaries. 

Selected books

Avril E Webster Appleton, 'Looking Back at Micklegate, Nunnery Lane and Bishophill, York' (Reeder Publications, 2011).

Robert and Elizabeth Davies. 'Walks through the City of York.' (1880, British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011)

Francis Drake 'Eboracum: or, the History and Antiquities of The City Of York' 1736.

'Mate's Illustrated Guide to York 1906' (Chantry Press, 1986)

Hugh Murray 'A Directory of York Pubs 1455-2004' (2004)

Hugh Murray 'The Horse Tramways of York 1880-1909' (Light Rail Transit Association,1980.)

Barbara Wilson and Frances Mee, 'The Fairest Arch In England: Old Ouse Bridge York And Its Buildings: The Pictorial Evidence' (York Archaeological Trust, 2002)